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Corpse
Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
by Jessica Snyder Sachs
ISBN: 073820336X
ISBN-13: 9780738203362
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
In CORPSE, Jessica Snyder Sachs explores exactly how forensic pathologists are coming closer and closer to correctly establishing time of death-that invaluable bit of information in fiction as well as grisly fact. Their keenest tool, explains Sachs, is not DNA testing or a technological whats-it, but nature itself.
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"Not for the squeamish, but a fascinating story nevertheless." -- F. Angline Mincho
-- Bloomsbury Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published date: 2001
Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 270
Publisher's Notes
CORPSE is the fascinating story of the 2000-year-old search to pinpoint time of death. It is also the terrible and beautiful story of what happens to our bodies when we die.
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